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450 migrants stranded at sea as Italy and Malta argue over who should take them
The migrants had initially set sail from Libya in a single wooden vessel.
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Jul 14th 2018, 3:18 PM
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Opinion: An EU coastguard for the Mediterranean could save lives and national budgets
There is a tragedy unfolding in the Mediterranean – and it’s not just the responsibility of southern European states.
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Jun 5th 2014, 8:00 AM
# Investigation
Italy denounced for hosing down migrants in cold water
A video showed male migrants stripped and hosed down in an effort to treat scabies.
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Dec 18th 2013, 7:20 AM
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Column: Europe needs a new approach to illegal immigration
Restoring fiscal health to the eurozone remains a serious challenge, but the EU must nevertheless find a solution to its illegal immigration crisis to prevent further tragedies, writes David Moloney.
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Oct 21st 2013, 12:45 PM
# Italy
EU demands extra search patrols as 300 feared dead in Italy migrant boat tragedy
The EU Home Affairs Commissioner is due to visit the site of the Lampedusa disaster tomorrow with Josee Manuel Barroso.
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Oct 8th 2013, 7:03 PM
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Column: What's more important – borders or people?
Hundreds are feared dead after a ship carrying asylum-seekers sank in the Mediterranean – yet many Europeans, who have endured histories of emigration, have simply hardened their hearts to the tragedy, writes Fr Bobby Gilmore.
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Oct 7th 2013, 7:30 PM
# Boat tragedy
Divers hope to resume search off Italy amid fears death toll could reach 300
Rough seas have hampered the body recovery effort off Lampedusa where a boat carrying hundreds of migrants from Africa sank on Thursday.
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Oct 5th 2013, 11:10 AM
# Italy
Three hundred people now feared dead after migrant boat disaster
Rescuers and local fishermen were overcome with emotion as they spoke of chaotic early morning scenes in the water off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Oct 4th 2013, 7:19 AM
# lampedusa
Doctors ‘run out of coffins’ on tragic Italian island
More than 130 people drowned in the horrific tragedy as doctors say they have run out of coffins.
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Oct 3rd 2013, 10:44 PM
# Italy
At least 82 asylum-seekers dead after boat capsizes off Italian island
The local mayor of Lampedusa said 82 bodies had been recovered by emergency workers, including those of two children and several women.
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Oct 3rd 2013, 11:36 AM
# Migrants
Migrants who fled Libya found dead on boat travelling to Italy
Twenty five bodies – all young men – have been found dead in the hold of a boat crossing the Mediterranean.
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Aug 1st 2011, 12:04 PM
# Sea Rescue
Over 400 migrants fleeing Libyan unrest rescued off Italian coast
Panicked migrants began falling and jumping into the sea after their boat was pushed against rocks off a small Italian island.
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May 8th 2011, 2:02 PM
# lampedusa
Call for Italian government to improve conditions for Libyan refugees
Thousands of migrants have arrived on the small island of Lampedusa, where they face conditions that one agency describes as “wholly inadequate”.
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May 6th 2011, 3:21 PM
# Accident
Boat carrying migrants sinks near Italian island of Lampedusa
200 people were on board the ship – the Italian Coast Guard says it has rescued 48 people but many are feared dead.
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Apr 6th 2011, 12:15 PM